Roar! That’s dragon for “Greetings, human. I like your face. Here’s a snapshot”.

This week’s snapshot brings a whole new type of potion, some smaller changes to existing potions, more changes to the Dragon fight mechanics (there’s a reason to respawn her now, and I do not apologize for making it so much harder), and a bunch of optimisations/bug fixes.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that we have not yet balanced the new (or existing) features. Things will either be completely overpowered or hilariously underpowered, so keep that in mind when playing with any new stuff!

Here are some of the notable changes:

Added new ‘lingering’ class of potions.

Told the dragon that you all called her funny names, so now she’s extra angry.

Optimisations! Bug fixes!

Looking into End Gateways may cause slight headaches.

Recalibrated the quantum intake regulator.

Searge also requested that you all know the following. I suspect he’s moonlighting as a litter pick.

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com. If nobody reports a bug, we can’t fix it!

To get snapshots, open your launcher and press the “New Profile” button. Call it “snapshots” and check the box saying “Enable experimental development snapshots” and save. To switch to the normal version, you can select it in the dropdown at the bottom left corner of the launcher. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (See the “new profile” dialog).

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds.